GGR241H1 Lecture 3: The Industrial City in Europe
Document Summary
Capitalist industrialization: origins lie in the proto industralization (1650 to early 1800s) which centered on the small, rural based units that were operated by city merchants, growing increase in production of things outside of the control of the household, development of small firms with employees using primitive hand tools creating profit for owner of firm controlled by merchants, firstly, growing spatial control of consumer market, rise of ports as important places, reordering of everyday life for rural people that used to work on farms now finding jobs in factories basis for full scale industrialization, rise of the united kingdom to industrial prominence between 1750 and 1880 (created by capitalist dynamic) colonization major factor, before 1880 major manufacturing done mostly in modern day china and india (mostly handicraft, germany, u. k. , us become powerhouses while china, india, and japan decline, control of production is how west became prominent economy.
